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March 22, 1938.

A. LOOS PACKAGE File d March 5, 1936 parts that Up to the present, with packages of this kind, the

Patented Mar. 22, 1938 PACKAGE, Arno Loos, Cologne, Germany Application March 5, in Germany v 2 Claims.

The packing, or package, forming the object of the present, invention is distinguished from others by the fact that it consists of three loose are hooped when ready for shipment.

bodies and bottoms have always been united either by stitching, clasping or glueing, or any other fastening means. The result of such a method has been'extremely bulky bodis exoeedingly difficult to store on account of the fact that the hollow space formed by them could in no way be benefited by or utilized. Aside from this, such packages owing to the fact that they are not yet filled with whatever goods there are to be packed therein] possess a comparatively low degree of stability, withthe ever present danger of being" easily damaged in piling them up. At-

tempts have been made to overcome these dimculties by uniting the bottoms to the bodies with clued strips; this, however, is feasible only-if the goods to be packed are already contained in the packing. After the filling has been effected, the lids, or covers-are glued to the bodies as well. Such glued stripshowever, possess a low degree of resistance with the result that with rough handling as isbound to occur, for instance, with piece-goods shipments, damages caused by the bursting of the glue'd strips-is unavoidable; the contents of the package run or fall out. As a consequence, packings. of that kind have not been introduced to any'appre'ciable extent.

If, however, a packing of-the kind described.

consists of three parts in accordance with the present invention and, more particularly, of a bottom, a body and a cover, or lid, surrounded by hoops when ready for shipment, the possibility exists, in the first place, to shape all of the parts "mentioned in such a manner that in the state "ready for storage, they consist of perfectly fiat pieces. such packages maybe reduced'to a fraction of the room required for storing such packages in their ready-for-shipment state. Furthermore,

the unreliable glued closing strips are com ,pletely eliminated because the hoops-:pf the packages 1may,,be selected to have any desired degree ofstrength and, at the same timegthe surfaces of the single parts of which the packing is composed and which are exposed to' pressure from withbut, may be chosen to be of such a size that the surface pressure arising betweeri the various r parts of the packing andcausedby the surround ing hoops does not produce any change 'of the parts inrelation to one: another despite the va- Thereby, the space needed for storing 1936, Serial No. 67385 March 9, 1935 rious influences of tear to which they are subjected. By way of example, the drawing shows one realization of the principle on which the invention is based, Figs. 1, 3 and 5 representing the. bot- 5 tom, body and lid, or top parts in the spread-out state, i. e. in that condition in which these parts are stored, while Figs. 2, 4. and 6 represent the identical parts in the perspective and in the condition they are in at themoment of being compounded to form a packing, or package, ready for shipment. Fig. 7 finally, is a perspective view of the complete package itself, ready for shipment. a1l of the figures, i indicates the top, 2 the g body, and 3 the bottom part of the packing in 5 accordance with the invention. The top part, or lid l consists of a square base I as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, corresponding to the square ground plan of the prism that is enclosed by the body faces in the state as shown in Fig. 4. Apart from the basic face i, the lid possesses supplementary 20 faces l" in the shape of an isosceles triangle. At the bases of the triangles formed by the faces 9', these faces are united with the. base i across the folded edges t with the result that the lid, as a r whole, also assumes the shape of a square limited by the edges 5. The grooved edges t permit the triangularflaps i" to be.bent lengthwise of it and vertically to the plane i" in such a way, that the lid receives the shape as shown in Fig. 2-before being placed on top of the other components of 30 the packing already filled with the goods. The body 2, as has been explained, consists of faces 2' surrounding in their totality a prism open-at its ends if brought into the shape as shown inFig'. 4 .Two such faces are folded on opposed scorelines 6 so that the body can be placed in a fiat form. as shown in Fig. 3- to occupy v a minimum amount of space and thereby facilirtate storing or shipping.

Again, the bottornpart 3 consists of a basic 40 plane or main portion 3' corresponding to the ground-plan'or cross-sectional shape of the body 2 in the position shown in Fig. 4 and with that to the basic plane or mainportion I of the lid part i. 'Attached to the basic plane 3! are supplementary faces or flapsg3" of rectangular shape, these supplementary faces 3" being'connected with the basic plane 3' across the folded edges 1. At 8, however, the folded edge is transformed to slits in. order to be able to plementary faces 3' to the position shown in Fig. '3; Inthis position, the facesf3" again enclose a-prism closed on one side at 3' and differing from the prism formed by the faces 2' (Fig. 4) "by its slightly inferior size, in such a 55 translocate the 'supway, that the bottom part as a whole may be introduced into the hollow space formed by the lateral faces 2'. In this condition, the faces 2 maintain the lateral faces 3" in the position shown in Fig. 6 as they are connected with one another across the folded edges 6 As will be seen, by the insertion of the bottom part into the hollow space formed by the lateral faces 2, a boxlike packing with opening above is obtained that may now be filled with the goods to be packed without any danger of pushing out the bottom by the pressure exerted because, naturally, the bot' tom rests on a table or similar base in a suitable -manner. After the package has been filled with the goods to be packed, the lid l is put on and the assemblage is surrounded with the customary steel strips, wire, cord, or the like. 'Fig. 'I shows the package ready for shipment. Apart from the lid I and the body 2, the surroundinghoops 9 can be recognized. 7

The principle, or idea, on which the invention is based may be varied without departing from the'spirit of it.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:-

1. A folded blank b ox comprising a rectangular I tubular body having four parallel score lines extending lengthwise thereof to permit it to be collapsed, a separate bottom member in the form of a tray adapted to be inserted into the lower end of the body and having rectangular score lines which divide the central portion of the bottom from the edge flaps thereof, each flap having an extending tongue engaging an adjacent flap, a cover mounted on the body and having a rectangular central portion from which depends four triangular flaps which engage the outer surface of the body, and hoops surrounding the box and holding the body, bottom and cover in "assembled relation.

2. A folded blank box comprising a rectangular tubular body having four parallel score lines extending lengthwise thereof to permit it to be collapsed, a separate bottom member in the form of a tray adapted to be inserted into the lower end of the body and having rectangular score lines which divide the central portion of the bottom from the edge flaps thereof, said flaps being adapted to frictionally engage v the inner walls of said body when thebottom member is inserted into said body, each flap havingan extending tongue engaging an adjacent flap, arcover mounted on the body and having a rectangular central portion from which depends four triangu l lar flaps which frictionally engage the outer surface of the body, and hoops surrounding the box and holding the body, bottom and cover in assembled relation.

'ARNO {.IOOS. 

